It has been a summer of transfers and change for Arsene Wenger and his attacking third of the pitch at Arsenal, bringing in Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud, and also looking at Santi Cazorla, while Robin van Persie wants to leave the club and Yossi Benayoun has exited the club following his loan spell.

Poor Chance Conversion Rate

Playing on loan for Sunderland last season, Nicklas Bendtner was used as the No. 1 centre-forward for long stretches of the campaign.

Bendtner started 25 of the 38 league games for his loan club, completing 2,234 minutes and scoring eight goals in the process.

Aside from anything else, that rate of one goal every 279 minutes is hardly fear-inducing for Italy's meanest defences.

Bendtner hit the target with less than half of his shots throughout the season, mustering only 48 percent of efforts on target from his 62 attempts.

Clearly, Bendtner lacks the necessary predatory instincts to make him a real goal-getter. Arguably, he would get more quality chances with Milan's midfielders feeding him instead of Sunderland's, but the point remains: He did not take enough to suggest he could be a real danger for one of the world's top sides.

Poor Off-the-Ball Movement

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It's not just Bendtner's finishing which marks him out as a below-par striker, his movement is also predictable and lacking thought at times.

Happy to stand on the shoulder of the defender for long stretches, he does not offer much in the way of working the channels, splitting the centre-backs or giving full-backs problems by operating in the spaces between defenders.

A static forward is the easiest one to mark, and while Zlatan Ibrahimovic may not have seemed like the world's hardest-working footballer at times, he was far, far cleverer in his movement than Bendtner could ever dream of being.

Cost Effectiveness

After selling Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to PSG, AC Milan should not be short of a few euro to operate in the transfer market, and the wage bill will also be significantly reduced.

To go and spend a significant portion of that—Bendtner's reported transfer market value is around £7.5 million—on a sub-standard player who will not displace any of the forwards currently at the club, and who has yet to make any real impact on the game at 24 years of age, just does not seem feasible.

AC Milan have a good squad in place already and will need to add a real injection of quality this summer to go on and challenge for the Serie A title next season.

Bendtner's reported £50,000-per-week wages are not overly excessive in the modern game, certainly not compared to the likes of Ibrahimovic and his PSG teammates, but it is still £2.5 million per year which might be better spent elsewhere for a team looking to win a league title.